CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVER AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

Disclosed is a content management server that allows the reproduction of content to be restarted from an appropriate reproduction interrupt position even in cases where a piece of content copied to a content reproduction device has been edited. In the disclosed content management server (200) which manages pieces of content and which edits content by deleting a portion of the content or by adding a portion to the content: the transmit/receive section (202) receives a first reproduction interrupt position which is the position at which the reproduction of content was interrupted in a content reproduction device (100); the reproduction-interrupt-position calculating section (209) calculates a second reproduction interrupt position on the basis of said first reproduction interrupt position and an edit segment within the content and to be deleted by editing, said second reproduction interrupt position corresponding to the position in the content after editing at which the reproduction of the content was interrupted in the content reproduction device (100); and the transmit/receive section (202) transmits the second reproduction interrupt position to the content reproduction device (100).